# FUP ate my db (and I did RTFM)

Judy Anderson (yduj@cs.stanford.edu)
Tue, 28 May 1996 10:00:13 PDT

- Messages sorted by:[ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]

    I haven't been following this discussion closely, but some of the
    responses I see are "why are you doing <illegal thing X>"---that's not
    a proper kind of response.  If there's a MOO eating bug, even if the
    user has to do something really grotty to trigger it, FUP should armor
    itself against the user, returning E_INVARG or whatever the
    appropriate error is for that particular illegal thing.  How does that
    saying go?  "It's not good enough to be foolproof---fools are too
    ingenious!"

          Judy Anderson yclept yduJ          'yduJ' rhymes with 'fudge'
     yduJ@cs.stanford.edu (personal mail)   yduJ@harlequin.com (work-related)
    	Join the League for Programming Freedom, lpf@uunet.uu.net